Zimbabwe Faces Economic Challenges: Mugabe

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Zimbabwe Faces Economic Challenges: Mugabe

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Friday in Harare that his country needs to focus on the economic challenges facing it and anyone who undermines this effort does not have the country's interests at heart.

Mugabe, who is also the leader of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), said the party was committed to ensuring that the people were cushioned against economic hardships facing the country and was determined that basic commodities should remain affordable.

He was speaking at the opening of the 50th session of the party's central committee meeting at ZANU- PF headquarters in Harare.

"Our concern today should be moving towards fulfilling the pledges we made to the people during the election campaigns, those pledges that have a bearing on their daily livelihood," said Mugabe.

He noted that a number of challenges remained ranged against the party, the most obvious of which was the relentless imperialist attempt to reverse the gains in the two decades of independence.

Mugabe said, with the presidential election over, focus must shift to accelerating and completing land redistribution so that farmers are better prepared for the coming rainy season.

"There is need also to engender confidence in the new farmers so that we are able to dispel the mistaken belief that a number of our people have that, only the white man is a good farmer," Mugabe said.

Land reform was the most viable way to economically empower people but should be complemented by the indigene of the economy.

Indigene covers a wider array of sectors and more people would be their own masters rather than be perpetual lowly paid workers.

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